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Photo Archivist position- Peabody Musuem, Harvard University




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Photographic Archivist.  The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology seeks an experienced professional to plan and implement a program which organizes, documents, preserves, and provides access to the museum's extensive photographic collection including negatives, transparencies, slides, prints, lantern slides, glass plate negatives, and film footage.  In conjunction with the Director for Collections, the archivist will set and implement priorities and formulate collection policies.  Duties include providing information and access to the collection to campus researchers and students and visiting researchers, responding to written requests for information, promoting research use of the collection, developing grant proposals, cataloguing new accessions and supervising staff, interns and volunteers. The archivist will manage a multi-year project cataloguing the entire collection into a collections management database and producing digital images of the entire archive. Minimum salary: $44,000.00 per annum.


The position requires an M.L.S. or equivalent degree in photographic archives management and a background in anthropology, with an M.A. in anthropology preferred; three to five years experience in a museum or anthropology-based photographic archive or the equivalent; knowledge of museum and archival accessioning and cataloging procedures, especially using electronic methods; significant experience with collections management databases including use in retroactive electronic cataloging, and proven ability to manage the design and implementation of a retroactive cataloguing project; familiarity with digital imaging, including but not limited to scanning methods, watermarking, and other means of intellectual property control, quality assessment, file formats and archival procedures for digital images; knowledge of copyright laws and practice; excellent organizational skills; grant writing experience; experience with sensitive issues of cultural patrimony and intellectual property.


Please send cover letter, resume, and the names of three references to: Photo Archivist Search, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA  02138.